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From:
Jarkko Hietaniemi
Date:
July 30, 2014 15:49
Subject:
Re: Criteria for becoming/dropping a core module [was: Re: maintainerwanted: Time::Piece]
Message ID:
53D913F4.8080303@iki.fi
On Wednesday-201407-30, 11:45, demerphq wrote:
> However, when I think that the only reliable way to find out the type of
> a reference, or that an object is blessed is loading a CPAN module I
> think that it misses a key point. Ditto for simple utilities like "sum",
> and "max" and whatnot.
>
> My personal feeling  is that there are things that are more or less
> "application" level that should not be part of Perl core, and there are
> things on CPAN which should have been part of the language from the
> beginning.

Agreed.  Common utility type of functionality (like sum) shouldn't 
require CPAN trip.




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